The museum of wrecks — the National Corvette Museum will keep the Corvette-wrecking sinkhole.

Back on February 12, the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., was the scene of a disastrous accident. A big portion of the museum literally fell in — fell into a huge sinkhole, that is, severely damaging eight historic (and quite valuable) Corvettes that had been on display.

Now the museum has found that disaster courts curiosity — attendance has gone up 59 percent over the same period last year, leading one to wonder if the same curiosity that causes people to slow down at highway wrecks is also bringing them into the site of one of the odder wrecks in the motoring world.

The museum’s board has decided to keep a large part of the sinkhole, fix it up a bit so museum patrons can have a decent view and probably put two of the wrecked Corvettes on display, back in the sinkhole.

The question now is this: which of the eight damaged Corvettes will the museum put into the refurbished sinkhole? More about the Dept. of Wrecked Corvettes. in this Hemmings Daily piece.

(Full disclosure: I own an unwrecked C5. Hopefully, there are no sinkholes under its garage.)